KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 Book lovers, take note! A new bookshop is in town, and it combines bookstore-browsing experience with arts, coffee and lifestyle a mix that’s.
Eslite Spectrum Corp (誠品生活), which runs the Eslite bookstore chain, department stores and leisure lifestyle services in Taiwan and abroad, aims to achieve revenue of NT$18.5 billion to NT$19 billion (US$628.9 million to US$645.93 million) this year after extending losses in the first quarter, chairwoman Mercy Wu (吳旻潔) said in an interview with the Chinese-language Commercial Times yesterday.
The Taipei-based group is struggling to swing back to profit after posting losses of NT$1.46 per share in the January-to-March period, as the COVID-19 pandemic weighs on its popular Eslite bookstores and department stores.
Eslite Spectrum has sought to survive by adopting an online-merges-offline
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 This year is shaping up to be a mega bookstore revolution with Kuala Lumpur welcoming Japan’s Tsutaya Books at Pavilion Bukit Jalil and Taiwan’s Eslite Spectrum set to open at The Starhill. Both are opening their first South-east Asian stores in.